This government has never been about governing in the best interests of the country
The last five years of government in this country have been characterised by the greatest waste of time and money in our history, a debasing […]
Politics
Means of Control: Russia’s Attempt to Hive Off the Internet
Such measures were always going to come on the heels, and heavily so, of the Utopians. Where there is Internet Utopia, Dystopia follows with dedicated […]
Claiming credit
It’s one thing for the Coalition to blame Labor and the Greens for everything – that’s just politics, as ProMo would say – but it’s […]
There are better ways to “stop the boats” than by destroying people’s lives
Labor finally found enough courage to actually remember we are dealing with people when we talk about the folk living in Hotel California (you can […]
Football, Refugee Rights and Hakeem al-Araibi
“Al-Araibi’s case has become a crucial test of world football’s commitment to human rights.” So observed the director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights […]
Labor to make TAFE courses free
Media Release A Daley Labor Government will make TAFE free for more than 600,000 certificate level places in skill shortage courses over the next decade, […]
Forget Good Government. It’s All About Winning
Politics in Australia has descended into the pit of the abyss. Take note! The conservative forces in politics are about to unleash one massively negative […]
Unity and Exceptionalism: Trump’s State of Union Flurries
“Trump is hated by everyone,” comes one unnamed former official in an account to Vanity Fair, one supposedly sourced after the President’s State of the […]
Climate change is making an already bad situation catastrophic. It’s worsened by a Federal Coalition in denial.
“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little […]
Down the Rabbit Hole Again !
I wrote this back in December and it is worth repeating to keep in context the Bill that Kerryn Phelps will present to the parliament […]
The government’s constant negativity is draining and divisive
There have always been incidents of nepotism, rorting, broken promises, moral failures, poor decisions, and even straight out lies, in politics. So why does it […]
Global problems cast a gloomy shadow over 2019
By Ad astra What better time to take a look at our world, our planet, than at the beginning of another year? Long past are […]
Independents and Her Majesty’s Opposition
The ABC program Q&A broadcast on Monday February 4 2019, featured a panel of independent Federal members of Parliament. The Member for Melbourne and deputy […]
No matter how much you give the rich, they will always want more
It seems astonishing that, in a country where one in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, and many […]
Playing the ref with a fake tax
The Liberals are playing the ref by tagging Labor’s dividend imputation policy a ‘retirement tax’. It is not surprising they see this as a productive […]